Fire Burns Dead Wood – (1674)

What is Dead Burns Best

What is dead burns best. What is alive does not burn so well.

This is a fact with physical fire. Wood that has been cut off from a tree and left to dry burns terrifically well. Where there is life there must be moisture or water. When life or moisture leaves it is then the natural time for fire to take over.

The same thing works with our egos. The Divine Mother is fire and when we have done our work of understanding the ego, which is really the same as emptying it of life, which is the same as removing the moisture from it, the time for the ego to be dissolved, that is have the essence liberated from it, it is right.

Exceptions

Fire transforms what has life removed from it. It can however burn something that still has life in it but the fire to do that must be very intense. These are the exceptions with the ego, an ego maybe still alive and the Divine Mother and the Law may as a special exception liberate the essence trapped within it. This is what is called a Kabbalistic bark, where an ego is made into a corpse without the due comprehension.

End (1674).